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Stockton, Robert Field
(Encyclopedia)Stockton, Robert Field, 1795–1866, American naval officer, b. Princeton, N.J. He left the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) to enter the U.S. Navy at 16 and served in the War of 1812 and in the ...Kean, Thomas Howard
(Encyclopedia)Kean, Thomas Howard: see New Jersey. ...Hughes, Richard Joseph
(Encyclopedia)Hughes, Richard Joseph: see New Jersey. ...Murphy, Philip Dunton
(Encyclopedia)Murphy, Philip Dunton: see New Jersey. ...Meyner, Robert Baumie
(Encyclopedia)Meyner, Robert Baumie: see New Jersey. ...Christie, Christopher James
(Encyclopedia)Christie, Christopher James: see New Jersey. ...Byrne, Brendan Thomas
(Encyclopedia)Byrne, Brendan Thomas: see New Jersey. ...Whitman, Christine Todd
(Encyclopedia)Whitman, Christine Todd: see New Jersey. ...Rutherford
(Encyclopedia)Rutherford rŭthˈərfərd [key], borough (1990 pop. 17,790), Bergen co., NE N.J., a residential suburb of the New York City–N New Jersey metropolitan area; inc. 1881. Several pre-Revolutionary hous...antipodes, in geography
(Encyclopedia)antipodes [Gr.,=having feet opposite], people or places diametrically opposite on the globe. Thus antipodes must be separated by half the circumference of the earth (180°), and one must be as far nor...Browse by Subject
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